This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region. By 2050, absent adaptation measures, experts project that climate change will reduce the global areas suitable for growing coffee by about 50% (Bunn et al. 2015). The case study outlines key …
Coffee is a major international commodity, and because of this, coffee production has the potential for considerable global impacts on the environment. These impacts can include the consumption of energy, water, land and the loss of native forest. Here we quantify these costs using Costa Rica as a case study, …
Coffee Board chief wants good tree cover over estates Demand may exceed production in five years from now CHIKMAGALUR: G.V. Krishna Rau, chairman of the Coffee Board, said on Saturday that tree cover in 1,20,000 hectares of land in the Western Ghats region had been reduced because of expansion of …
Scientists expect climate change to dramatically affect coffee production in Central America in the coming decades, but some lowland farmers in Guatemala say they are already feeling the effects. The United Nations forecasts temperatures will rise one to six degrees over the next century, which will make some lower-lying coffee …
Zimbabwe's once promising coffee industry faces total collapse due to upheavals linked to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land redistribution policy, a farmers union said on Wednesday. The coffee industry was growing steadily until 2000, when Mugabe embarked on a drive to resettle landless but inexperienced black farmers on white-owned commercial …
Andhra Pradesh: Araku Emerald, the organic gourmet coffee grown by tribals Bisoi Arjun from Malisingaram in Araku Valley mandal was just another impoverished tribal before he joined the 7,000-member Small and Marginal Tribal Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Society. When he was a farm labourer, he used to walk up to …
Villagers of Basarikatte in the taluk demanded a ban on the spraying of dreaded pesticide Endosulphan in coffee plantations. Planters in and around Basarikatte are spraying Endosulphan to prevent coffee borer attack. Meanwhile, villagers are anxious about the possibilities of water pollution through the spray of Endosulphan. A demand for …
Chikmagalur, DH News Service: Monday, June 15, 2009 Coffee berry borer is causing nightmare to robusta coffee growers in the district. Coffee Board Extension unit Deputy Director G H Omkarappa has estimated that about 20,000 hectare of land in the district is affected by coffee berry borer disease. Robusta is …
Honduras will temporarily shut down the Caribbean port of Puerto Cortes, where it ships 80 percent of its exports, after a large earthquake nearby on Thursday, the national port authority said. "There is damaged machinery and equipment," Roberto Babum, head of Honduras' port authority told local television. Puerto Cortes is …
Spiders are gaining favour in ecological studies as indicators of environmental quality1 and as biological control agents in agricultural ecosystems. Coffee, a major commercial crop of India harbours rich spider diversity. The crop is also attacked by a variety of pests. This correspondence discusses the importance of gut content analysis …
Koppa, News Service: The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters. Mysore plantation in Koppa has become successful in setting up a coffee waste processing unit with the use of …
March 23: After Tirupati laddu, Andhra Pradesh is trying to include Athripuram Putharekulu, Araku coffee, Bandaru laddu and Avakaya pickle in the Geographical Indications Registry. This will give the registered proprietor and authorised users the legal right to the exclusive use of the product and the right to obtain relief …
A herd of wild buffaloes barged into the coffee plantation of one Mr Madhava Gowda at K Kelaguru in Kalasa hobli and destroyed the crops, estimated to be worth Rs 1 lakh. Mr Gowda has said that since the last 3 years the wild buffaloes are causing great trouble to …
The coffee growers of Mudigere region are facing a peculiar problem. These growers had filed an application seeking permission from the District Conservator of Forest to cut the trees in their coffee plantation, which they had planted some years ago to provide shade. Though they had sought permission about a …
This study looks at the approaches of different private, voluntary standards in coffee supply chains on controlling the use of hazardous pesticides and moving to safer pest management. It draws some conclusions from the different schemes and highlights issues for private and public sector stakeholders.
Exclosure experiments have demonstrated the effects of bird predation on arthropods. In a Mexican coffee plantation, we excluded foliage-gleaning bird and bat predators from coffee plants. Effects of bats and birds were additive. In the dry season, birds reduced arthropods in coffee plants by 30%; birds and bats together reduced …
